{"id":10020,"date":"2020-11-28T22:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2020-11-29T15:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T15:44:29","slug":"mask-worn-on-waist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mask-worn-on-waist\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask worn on waist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0 Here are the Mexican masks I\u2019ve photographed and cataloged so far. I have many more to do.\u00a0 Pick any one you want.\u00a0 Kevin, 1800<\/p>\n

A:\u00a0 I’ll but pick the most unusual one. It is a newly made decorative from Guerrero, Mexico. Some of the dancers in that state impersonate St. James, fish, mermaids, or horses that they wear around their waists<\/strong> as if they’re riding them. Though these strange masks are popular with tourists and mask collectors now, they’ve been danced in Guerrero for hundreds of years.\u00a0 This one would never be danced. Only a tourist will buy one with the tail of a mermaid and the head of St. James.\u00a0 Please go to post #1796 (Nov 21, 2020) and read more about Mexican decoratives.<\/p>\n

From the collection of the Charles Moore Foundation in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00a0 \u00a0 Q:\u00a0 Here are the Mexican masks I\u2019ve photographed and cataloged so far. I have many more to do.\u00a0 Pick any one you want.\u00a0 Kevin, 1800 A:\u00a0 I’ll but pick the most unusual one. It is a newly made decorative from Guerrero, Mexico. Some of the dancers in that state impersonate St. James, fish, mermaids, or horses that they wear around their waists as if they’re riding them. Though these strange masks are popular with tourists and mask collectors now, they’ve been danced in Guerrero for hundreds of years.\u00a0 This one would never be danced. Only a tourist will buy one with the tail of a mermaid and the head of St. James.\u00a0 Please go to post #1796 (Nov 21, 2020) and read more about Mexican decoratives. From the collection of the Charles Moore Foundation in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10034,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions\/10034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}